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Campaign Handbook 

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for Use of Speakers, Directors and 

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ALABAMA MEMORIAL 



To erect a true memorial to epitomize and apotheosize tlie great war. that 
posterity may benefit by our sacrifices and travail, is a sacred privilege that 
is transcendent in its importance. 



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THE DEBT 

By Theodosia Garrison. 

For the youth they gave and the blood they gave, 
For the strength that was our stay, 

For every marked or nameless grave 

On the steel-torn Flanders way — 

We who are whole of body and soul 
We have a debt to pay. 



For the youth they gave and the blood they gave 

We must render back the due ; 
For every marked or nameless grave 
We must pay with a service true ; 
Till the scales stand straight with even weight 

And the world is a world made new. 



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ALABAMA MEMORIAL COMMISSION 



Officers and Members 

His Excellency, Gov. Thomas E. Kilby, ex-officio, Montgomery, 
Chairman ; 

Henry P. Merritt, Speaker, House of Representatives, ex-officio, 
Tuskegee ; 

Senator T. J. Bedsole, President pro tern, of the Senate, ex- 
officio, Grove Hill; 

Hon. J. Q. Smith, Attorney General, ex-officio, Montgomery; 

Dr. Thomas M. Owen, Director, Department of Archives and 
History, ex-officio, Montgomery, Secretary and Historian ; 

Borden Burr, Birmingham ; W. R. Chapman, Dothan ; 

Albert C. Davis, Montgomery ; N. D. Denson, Opelika ; 

Senator James B. Ellis, Selma ; C. A. O'Neal, Andalusia ; 

A. G. Patterson, Albany ; L. Pizitz, Birmingham ; 

Joseph 0. Thompson, Birmingham; 
Rev. Dr. Richard Wilkinson, Montgomery ; 
Dr. Henry J. Willingham, Florence. 



Campaign Officers 

R. L. Bradley, Montgomery (State Treasurer), Treasurer; 
W. S. Stallings, Birmingham, State Campaign Director; 
Spright Dowell, Montgomery, Campaign Director for Schools; 
Fred H. Gormley, Y. M. C. A. Building, Birmingham, Newspa- 
per Publicity Director. 



The Commission was formally organized in the office of the Governor, 
February 18, rules adopted, committees appointed, the sum of $500,000 
agreed upon as a minimum to be raised by popular subscription for the me- 
morial, and June 27-July 4, 1919, selected as the week for the drive. Later a 
campaign organization was effected, campaign officers selected, etc. Friday,, 
May 9, 1919, was named as Memorial Building Day in the schools. 

All general inquiries should be addressed to the Secretary and Historian 
as above; and school campaign correspondence to Mr. Dowell. 

All general campaign commrnications should be directed to W. S. Stall- 
ings, State Campaign Director, Y. M. C. A. Building. Birmingham, Ala. 



MEMORIAL FOR ALABAMA SOLDIERS 

(Extract from Rciiori of the Alabama Coiuicil of Defense, 1918.) 

Just as we have served the living, so we must pay tribute in 
an abiding way to those heroes who have finished their course in 
life. As a testimonial to the gallantry, the courage and the 
nobleness of purpose which actuated them to go forth to battle, 
should we not erect a permanent and lasting memorial ? Not one 
simply of artistic conception or imposing design, but a building 
of adequate proportions and enduring usefulness, and which will 
tend to keep alive the records and exploits of those sons of 
Alabama who made the supreme sacrifice, and yet prove a bene- 
faction to the veterans of the great world war. We trust that 
by legislative action or voluntary subscriptions, either or both, 
some definite program may be worked out to commemorate the 
acts of heroism and devotion of Alabama's sons who lie beneath 
the sod of a sister Republic. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Title 1 

Organizatiiiii of (Onmiissiitu 3 

Contents 5 

Introdiction 
Alabama's Memorial a Massive Buildini;. By W. S. Stallings 7 

Alabama Memouial Commission Createo; Commendatory Expressions; 
Memorial Efforts in Other States 

Alaliama Memorial Commission Created 13 

Design of the Alabama Memorial 14 

Alabama's Memorial Hall 15 

Ttie State Memorial 17 

Let's All Get Together 17 

IvEcoRD OF Alabama in the World War 

Alabama's Answer to the Nation's Call. By Gov. Charles Henderson 21 

Record of Alabama in the European War. By Gov. Thomas E. Kilby 24 

Alabama's War Work. By Dr. Hastings H. Hart 25 

Alabama's Record in the Selective Draft. By L. E. La^Iont 29 

Patriotic and Memorial Selections 

Alabama. By Miss Julia S. Tutwiler 35 

A Land Without Ruins. By Father Abram J. Ryan 35 

A Song for Heroes. By Edwin Markham 3(5 

Your Lad and My Lad. By Randall Parrish 37 

The Service Flag. By William Herschell 38 

In Flanders' Fields. By Lieut.-Col. John D. McRae 39 

Rest in Peace. By James N. Gunnels 39 

In Flanders' Fields : An Answer. By C. B. Galbreath 40 



INTRODUCTION 



ALABAMA'S MEMORIAL A MASSIVE BUILDING 
Reasons Prompting the Decision of the Commission 

By W. S. Stallings, State Campaign Director. 
(P'voni BiiiniiH/hain Xeirs, May i:'>. 1011).) 

Why a massive building as Alabama's memorial to those who 
died or were ready to die in defense of America's ideals and 
public policies? What better answer could be given to this ques- 
tion than that fifty years from now those who made the word 
"Alabama" honored in France and all Europe will be living in 
the glorious past, and their proudest mental possession will be 
the thought that "I was one of those who w^ent over and aided in 
establishing that name," or "I was ready to go across." Then 
the best moment of those who came back will be spent in reading 
and talking of the exploits of other years. 

A nation always links its past with its present and considers 
its record in planning for the future. Glories of the past lend 
the proper inspiration for the solution of the problems of the 
present and the solution of these problems means the advance- 
ments of the future. 

Alabama Honored Name 

Alabama's name is on the lips of all nations now. Wherever 
one goes in France one hears of those fellows from Alabama. 
This State's soldiers, members of the famous One Hundred and 
Sixty-Seventh Regiment, were the only ones referred to in France 
by the name of their State, all because of their records at Chateau- 
Thierry, St. Mihiel and Sedan. 

Alabama must preserve the history of this wonderful fighting 
organization, the official records of the regiment, the archives 
of the various units composing it, the trophies of war brought 
back by them. Many other men from Alabama aided in making 
the State's record. They were members of other organizations. 
Their records, too, must be collected and preserved somewhere so 
their friends and relatives may know that for all time there is a 
place in this State where they may find what each person in 
whom they are interested did to establish democracy as the 
political policy of the world. 



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At this time there is no place to preserve these records and 
at the same time to have them available for inspection or for 
exhibition. Hence the memorial building. One may think little 
of the value of the proposed memorial now, but as the years go 
by interest will become greater and greater, and fifty years from 
now each citizen will say to himself: "I am glad that I had a 
part in that drive of 1919 which gave my State a building that 
has kept alive the spirit created by those fellowg in 1918." 

Leads in Preservation of History 

This State was the first in the South to provide for a great 
Department of Archives and History, charged with the duty 
officially to receive, compile and preserve all records, reports, 
documents, trophies, manuscripts, paintings and other things 
which make up the State's History. Its work is known through- 
out the nation and in foreign countries, but, sad to relate, its 
facilities have not been such as to give the State the maximum 
benefits of the wonderful organization. 

The "Alabama Memorial" will furnish just the facilities 
needed. It will enable the properly-constituted officers to collect 
all records and documents bearing on this State's part in the 
war and to preserve the individual records of all Alabama's rep- 
resentatives. Attention will be paid to every feature of the 
State's war work and every citation of a soldier, sailor or marine 
will be filed. 

Memorial Features 

It is proposed that the building shall be a work of art. It 
will be constructed of Alabama marble. On the walls will be 
painted scenes of the battles in which Alabama men participated, 
especially Chateau-Thierry and St. Mihiel, and will show their 
advance just before the armistice was signed toward the spot at 
Sedan where France was humbled by the Prussian hordes in 
the Franco-Prussian war, and where on November 11, 1918, the 
allied nations completed the task of visiting righteous retribution 
on the invaders. 

Provision will be made for statues of men who led the Ala- 
bama soldiers, of those who received recognition for bravery, and 
of those who paid the State's debt to freedom with their lives. It 
will be a memorial building in every sense of the word. No part 
of the State's record will be neglected. 

Plans of Thirty-Seven Other States 

Alabama is not alone in providing a memorial building. 
Thirty-seven of the forty-eight States have answered inquiries 



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regarding their memorials. Of this number, thirteen have 
already made plans for memorial buildings and five have pro- 
posed memorial buildings, but final action has not been taken. 
Two will build monuments or statutes, one will erect a bronze 
tablet, one will have a system of memorial highways, one will 
construct a memorial bridge, one is planting memorial trees along 
a national highway, while thirteen have not completed plans. 
Eleven states have not answered inquiries. 

The states which will construct memorial buildings are Ala- 
bama, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, 
New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, 
South Dakota, and Tennessee. Those which propose memorial 
buildings but have not completed plans are Michigan, Minnesota, 
New Mexico, Rhode Island and Utah. 

Colorado and Washington are the only states which have pro- 
vided for monuments or statues. Wyoming will erect a bronze 
tablet in its capitol. Oregon has proposed a system of Memo- 
rial Highways. Maine is planning the erection of a memorial 
bridge connecting the State with New Hampshire. Louisiana is 
planting memorial trees. States which have not decided on forms 
of memorials are Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kan- 
sas, Massachusetts, Montana, New York, Ohio, Texas, West Vir- 
ginia, and Wisconsin. 

Alabama Memorial by Legislative Action 

Alabama was the first State to provide for a State Memorial 
by legislative enactment and the action of a majority of the other 
states shows that the idea of this State is shared by the Nation. 
Tennessee proposes the erection of a building for its archives 
and history at a total cost of $2,225,000, Mississippi will make a 
State drive for $500,000, the same week as the Alabama drive, 
June 27 to July 4, the fund to be used for the same purpose as 
the Alabama fund. 

Reasons for Building Overwhelming 

Many things prompted the Alabama Memorial Commission to 
make its decision in favor of a building. From every part of the 
Nation appeals have been registered against the erection of 
memorials which will lose their beauty, their prestige, as time 
advances into the twentieth century. It has been pointed out 
that monuments in commemoration of deeds during the Civil 
War were erected and many of them attract little attention now. 
Persons interested in memorials, students of architecture and 
other arts are agreed that buildings are the proper form of mem- 
orials in this age. 



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After reaching the conclusion that a building should be 
erected, the Memorial Commission then took up the problem of 
selecting the form of the building. It had before it the sugges- 
tion that the building provide for the welfare of soldiers, sailors 
and marines, but this was counter-balanced by information from 
Washington that Congress had appropriated $10,000,000 for this 
work and would appropriate $50,000,000 or more during the year 
if the Public Health Service asked for such an amount. In view 
of the fact that the National Government considered this prob- 
lem one for the Nation instead of the individual states this sug- 
gestion was cast aside. 

Then came the proposal that a great building be constructed, 
to be known as the "Alabama Memorial" and to be used in 
receiving, storing, preserving and exhibiting the records, his- 
tories, trophies and valuable articles of the State. The Com- 
mission reached the conclusion that this was the proper form of 
the memorial building since the other suggestion had already 
been cared for by the National Government and since there 
should be some central point where records of the past could be 
preserved in order that they might lend inspiration for the solu- 
tion of the problems of the present. 

In this connection it might be stated that the allies, knowing 
how important a part sentiment has in the life of nations, suc- 
cessfully urged before the peace conference that Germany be 
required to surrender precious manuscripts and early printed 
books in partial reparation for the destruction of the Library of 
Louvain, and to retiarn other trophies which the invaders had 
removed from Belgium and Northern France, and which were 
valueless except for the sentiment attached to them. This re- 
quirement was incorporated in section seven of the peace treaty 
delivered to the German Government. 



Alabama Memorial Commission Created; 

Commendatory Expressions; Memorial 

Efforts in Other States 



The custom of coiuiiieinoratiiisi the dead is older than history. Spec-ial 
honor has always been paid to the heroic dead — those who have renderetl 
great service or made great sacrifice for the general welfare. Every village 
has its churchyard filled with costly marble ; every city has its statues, monu- 
ments, or other memorials. 

— The American City, December, 1918, p. 471. 



So fresh is the painful memory of our losses and those of our allies in 
the war. and so much have we been impressed witli the greatness of our 
national and world leaders in this crisis, that we have reminded ourselves of 
the fact that it would be tragic if their names and their deeds were lost, for- 
gotten amidst the passing of time and the shuffling of generations. We are 
impressed with the thought that one of the highest and most sacred duties of 
any people is to revere the times and the great leaders and heroes of its 
past. Out of the Past the Present has come and from the Present and the 
Past the Future can only be born. The historical continuity of a people or an 
institution is impressed upon us today as never before because we have gone 
throiigh A great historical crisis. The thought that great men of a former 
generation who did big things should be forgotten in lieu of the moderns and 
the so-called progressive, is strange to our minds today. 

— Milner, Suggestive Si)eech Material, Sewanee Campaign, 1919, p. 14. 



Any memorial should be built of permanent materials such as stone or 
bricli and be fireproof — for it sliould of its very nature he permanent. In 
old-established conununities where there is an architectural tradition exempli- 
fied by the older buildings in the town the memorial should conform to their 
general character. 

— Suggestions for a Liring Memorial, 1919, p. 10. 



ALABAMA MEMORIAL COMMISSION CREATED 

9.) (H. 5— Merritt. 

AN ACT 

To create the Alabama Memorial Commission, to prescribe its powers and 
duties, and to make an appropriation in aid thereof. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the Legislature of Alabama, That 
there is hereby created a commission, to be known as the "Ala- 
bama Memorial Commission," to consist of the governor, the 
attorney general, the director of the department of archives and 
history, president pro tem of the Senate and the speaker of the 
House of Representatives, all ex-officio, and twelve other persons 
to be appointed by the governor. 

Sec. 2. The governor shall be president, and the director of 
the department of archives and history shall be secretary and 
historian of the commission ; a careful record of its proceedings 
shall be kept, an annual report to the governor to be made, to be 
printed as other official reports, and it is empowered to adopt 
rules for its guidance and for the execution of its powers herein 
proposed, and eight members shall constitute a quorum; and the 
members shall serve without compensation, other than reim- 
bursement for traveling and living expenses while in. attendance, 
upon the meetings of the business of the commission. — *= ^ 

Sec. 3. The commission shall have full authority and power^ 
and it shall be its duty, as early as practicable after the approval 
of this act, to elfect an organization, and to consider and adopt 
plans for the erection of a suitable memorial to commemorate the 
part of Alabama and Alabamians in the world war. In the exe- 
cution of the powers herein conferred, the commission may solicit 
and receive gifts and donations or property, and may organize 
and conduct campaigns or canvass throughout the State for the 
purpose of securing contributions and subscriptions for the me- 
morial herein provided. Power is given to adopt the form and 
design of the memorial, to determine the extent of the cost there- 
of, and to secure an appropriate site on which to locate or erect 
the said memorial, and power is hereby conferred upon the 
commission to proceed, through the attorney general in the name 
of the State to condemn and acquire land in accordance with the 
laws governing condemnation now in force in the State. Power 
is further given to elect all executive officers or other persons 
necessary in organizing and carrying on the work of raising 
funds, and further power is conferred to contract for and super- 
intend the erection of such memorial, plans therefor to be made 
from the funds herein approved and which may hereafter be col- 



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lected. In order to safeguard the funds, the executive secretary 
and the treasurer shall be required to give bond in some surety 
company in such sum and otherwise conditioned as the commis- 
sion may determine. 

Sec. 4. The sum of fifty thousand dollars is hereby appro- 
priated as the official contribution on the part of the State to- 
ward the erection of such memorial, but such sum shall not be 
available until the sum of two hundred thousand dollars has been 
raised by voluntary contribution throughout the State, and such 
sum shall not be actually expended from the State treasury until 
the expenditure first of the amounts voluntarily contributed. The 
further sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to 
be immediately available, to be used and employed by the commis- 
sion for the purpose of organization, salaries, printing, advertis- 
ing and other expenses necessary to the putting on of campaign 
for the raising of the subscriptions and contributions herein 
above prescribed, and the State auditor is hereby directed to 
draw his warrant for such part of the said sum of $10, 000. CO, 
from time to time as may be required by the governor. 

Approved February 3, 1919. 



DESIGN OF THE ALABAMA MEMORIAL 

Resolution Adopted by the Alabama Memorial Commission, April 3, 1919 

Whereas, the act of the Legislature under which we derive 
our powers authorizes us only to adopt plans, receive contribu- 
tions for, and cause the erection of a "suitable memorial to com- 
memorate the part of Alabama and Alabamians in the world 
war," "to adopt the form and design of the memorial," and "to 
secure an appropriate site on which to locate or erect the said 
memorial ;" and 

Whereas, both the spirit of the law and the intent of the 
Legislature of Alabama provide for a memorial to our soldiers 
and sailors perpetuating for posterity their records and evidenc- 
ing by its name, character and location, its form and design the 
dominant ideal of a state-wide memorial, as distinguished from 
the humanitarian idea; therefore, Be It Resolved, 

(1) That we adopt as the form of memorial a building to be 
called "Alabama Memorial," and to be of such design and archi- 
tecture as will best illustrate and commemorate the record of 
Alabama and Alabamians in the world war; 

(2) That in order that the memorial building should be state- 
wide in both its purposes and uses a^ appropriate site on or near 
the capitol grounds, in the city of Montgomery, be secured ; 



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(3) And in order to secure for posterity the records of the 
past, present and future and the traditions of the past, and to 
assist in formulating the future historical movements of the 
State, and in order that our educational system may keep step 
with the progress of our people — both drawing inspiration from 
our history and lending strength thereto — and for the reason that 
the history of our State and the education of its citizens are so 
closely allied, the State Department of Archives and History 
shall have the custody or care of the said memorial building and 
its historical contents, and the State Department of Education 
shall be housed therein. 

(4) That the Executive Committee of the Commission in 
keeping with these resolutions be authorized and directed to pro- 
cure proper plans and specifications for the memorial building, 
determine the extent of the cost thereof, and make report to this 
commission as far as practicable within thirty days from this 
date. 



ALABAMA'S MEMORIAL HALL 

(From The Montyomery Advertiser, April 4, 1919.) 

The Alabama Memorial Commission has decided that the 
memorial which will be raised to honor the valor and devotion 
of Alabamians in the great European war and which will be 
built by the generous gifts of Alabamians moved by pride in and 
effection for their sons and brothers, shall take the form of a 
beautiful and stately memorial building erected in Montgomery, 
somewhere near the State House. This decision to honor the 
dead and the living by a monument which will inspire pride and 
patriotism, and which will symbolize a great chapter in the 
history and traditions of Alabama, will meet with the earnest 
approval of the mass of Alabamians, who are today moved by an 
eager desire to honor the sons of Alabama, while their deeds are 
fresh in the minds of men. 

The supporters of the plan for a great hospital building for 
the alleviation of the sufferings of the soldiers and their families 
in the future ably presented their idea, and they sustained their 
rroject by a generous financial offer which would have given 
impetus to the memorial campaign at its inception. The mem- 
bers of the commission discussed at some length the appropriate- 
ness and the suitability of a philanthropic and utilitarian institu- 
tion, in comparison with the original project of establishing a 
monument which would appeal to the ideal and heroic in human 
nature, and contribute to the creation of a splendid morale in 
Alabama's people. It was pointed out in a legal opinion rendered 



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to the commissioners, however, that the commission had no 
right under the act creating and providing for the erection of a 
memorial, to build a hospital. The efforts of the advocates 
of the hospital plan, however, were not made in vain, nor was 
the discussion of the project bootless. The act will undoubtedly 
be amended at the summer session of the Legislature, so that 
the commission can supplement its efforts, after providing for 
the memorial hall, to use its machinery for the erection of a 
State Hospital and to turn over for such an institution the funds 
left after the memorial building is erected. 

The unspoken purpose in the hearts of all the people of 
Alabama, to commemorate a great chapter in the history of the 
State and the men who made it, has now been crystallized by the 
legal action of the agents of the State, into a stately and beautiful 
memorial hall. It is a great conception ; no one man alone can 
claim to have created it. It projects the vision of a building of 
white beauty, its lines drawn true to taste and art, set in spacious 
grounds — a temple of patriotism with the relics of a heroic 
struggle set around and about. It will, the commission decided 
quite appropriately, house the Department of Archives and His- 
tory, for the resources of that department are committed to the 
task of keeping alive the memory of the valor of the men who 
challenged, halted and beat back the terror of German militar- 
ism. 

It will hold, too, by the decision of the commission, the offices 
of the men responsible for the present great educational activi- 
ties in the State. 

The assignment of the quarters in the building to the Depart- 
ment of Archives and History and of the State Educational De- 
partment was but incidental. The building had to be cared for, 
occupied and kept going ; its original, its primary purpose could 
be best observed by keeping it alive with occupants whose labors 
were in accord with and supplementary to the purpose which 
was behind its construction. The memorial will be, for all time, 
a symbol and an inspiration, rather than a utilitarian agency. It 
will, as it very properly should, appeal to the ideal and inspire 
the spiritual in the people of Alabama. It will be the focus of 
the State's patriotism, a center of influence from which will 
arouse forces to permeate our people and contribute to the mak- 
ing of that matchles morale in a people, founded upon loyalty, 
honor and duty. 

We may hope that the reality of this conception will develop 
into a building so stately, so dignified and so appropriate, that 
people from afar will come to wonder at the achievements of the 
people of Alabama in commemorating the valor of their soldiers. 

The funds for the memorial will be raised by a popular sub- 
scription directed and conducted by State officials, specifically 



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empowered to do the work by the Legislature. In the work of 
raising funds it is incumbent upon the city of Montgomery to 
lead. The memorial was not ordered to be built through any 
partiality or for friendship for Montgomery. It was ordered to 
be erected in this city without any consideration of its possible 
effect in beautifying and improving Montgomery. Montgomery 
happened to be the seat of the State government, and the memo- 
rial hall was naturally ordered to be built near the Capitol. 

But it will improve — it will beautify Montgomery. It will 
furnish the city with an added interest and an attraction for 
visitors. In the years to come, this building will draw many 
thousand visitors who but for the memorial hall would never 
have come. Now, in appreciation of this favor of good fortune 
the people of Montgomery should lead the remainder of the State 
in the collection of funds for the building. 



THE STATE MEMORIAL 

(From The Mohilc livuhfcr. April .j, lOlO.) 

The State memorial of the valor and sacrifices of the soldiers 
and sailors and marines of Alabama in the great war will take 
the shape of an imposing building to be erected in Montgomery, 
and which will be a monument and at the same time the reliquary 
of the war. In it will be preserved the history of the gallant 
deeds of our men ; and the trophies and relics that will illustrate 
to coming generations the greatest conflict the world has ever 
known or probably will ever know. The memorial will be useful 
as well as an ornament. It will be dedicated to history and edu- 
cation ; it will house the valuable war collections already made 
by the State department of archives and history and it will also 
give room for the State's educational department. While it calls 
to mind at all times the heroism of our soldiers and instructs 
intimately as to the part each soldier or sailor played in the 
world drama, it will help to cultivate a finer civilization and to 
impress upon the minds of the coming generations in Alabama 
the importance of the great moral right for which the war was 
fought, and the nobility of American patriotism. 



LET'S ALL GET TOGETHER 

(From MoutooiiKiji Journal, April 15, liUD.) 

While there was some differences as to what form the mem- 
orial to our soldiers in the recent war should take, there has 
never been any differences on the question as to Alabama's duty 
to erect such memorial ; and now that the memorial commission 



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has acted, has unanimously agreed on a building for the depart- 
ment of archives and history of the State — a building in which 
can be stored and preserved "for all time the records, histories 
and souvenirs of all who participated in the world war as the 
representatives of Alabama" — let there be no dissenting voice, 
but a united effort to raise the funds necessary. Let all enter 
upon the work in hand — a most patriotic work — with enthusiasm, 
and if so, there will be no doubt of the result. 

No state in the United States furnished braver, more daring 
and fearless soldiers than Alabama, according to population, 
and few states furnishing so many officers who achieved distinc- 
tion on field of battle. In this, Alabama has maintained its 
record in all wars in which this section of this country has been 
involved in all its history ; and that record is a proud one — one of 
distinction. 

The memorial building is to be erected upon Capitol Hill, 
and it is to be made one in which the people of Alabama will have 
cause to have a pride. And the uses to which it is to be put will 
ever keep vividly and freshly in the minds of the people that the 
building is a monument to those heroes who gave their lives to 
their country, for freedom and humanity, and to those who gave 
their service and so nobly offered their lives as sacrifice in the 
interest of liberty and humanity. 

The Journal repeats, let's get together, no matter what dif- 
ferences we may have had as to the form of the memorial, and 
join in the good work soon to begin of raising the half million 
dollars for the erection of the memorial building. As Dr. W. B. 
Crumpton, who represented those who have favored the State 
hospital memorial idea, said in a letter to The Journal, "I hope 
the advocates of the State hospital will lay hold, with liberal 
hand, and aid in the drive for the Archives and History Building." 
In this attitude toward the action of the commission in agreeing 
upon a building for the Archives and History Department of 
the State, Dr. Crumpton represents the sentiment of thousands 
and tens of thousands of people throughout the State who had 
favored the State hospital as, what they conceived would be, 
the most appropriate and most helpful to humanity. 

It is gratifying to see one of the ablest advocates of the State 
hospital as memorial come out so emphatically and strongly for 
the form of memorial agreed upon by the commission. 

Again we say, let us unite in this good work, and help to 
crown with success the efforts of those who will be named to help 
raise the amount required. The Journal assures the commission 
it enters the campaign for raising subscriptions for the memorial 
as our brave soldiers entered the war — with the spirit of deter- 
mination to win. 



Record of Alabama in the World War 



A memorial worthy of the recent conflict must be dynamic ; it must he a 
building that shall honor the dead by immortalizing the principles for which 
they made the supreme sacrifice ; it must be a building commemorating the 
service of the living by giving service. 

— The American Citi/, December, 1918, p. 471. 



If they are to exist at all, they must be the best. This means that we 
are bound to guard ourselves scrupulously against the commercial purveyors 
of mortuary art. What has hapiiened in cemeteries in the way of family 
vaults. '"Celtic crosses," symbolical statues and headstones, should give us 
l)ause. There are just two iieople who can jiossibly produce what is wanted, 
the architect and the sculptor; and the connnittee that picks its type memorial 
from an illustrated catalogue (probably delivered liy parcel-post) gets exactly 
what it deserves, even if the soldiers and sailors and airmen get much less. 
—Cram, The Architectural Record, February, 1919, p. 116. 



ALABAMA'S ANSWER TO THE NATION'S CALL 

By Gov. Charles IIendekson. 
(Extract from Message to the Legislature, Jauuary U, VMU.) 

In the making of this record, our nation has depended and 
rehed upon the co-operation and support of the forty-eight states 

■ ?^ ,V"^°"' ^l^bama has participated in this support equally 
with all the other states, and now with the return of peace, we 
can look with pride upon the score that has been made in each of 
the activities concerning the war, that have gone far towards aid- 
ing and strengthening our government in the performance of its 
tasks. 

Alabama answered the nation's call by the tender of volun- 
teers. She answered it through the stoical acceptance upon the 
part of her people, of the duties assigned to them, by reason of 
citizenship. She answered the call of the nation by the tender of 
her best young manhood and of her treasure, without evasion. 
This was all done with the unfaltering determination, that the 
honor and integrity of the nation should be preserved and that the 
best traditions of a noble ancestry should be upheld and glorified. 
How well that faith has been nurtured, is best told in the daily 
reports that have come from the battlefields of Chateau-Thierry, 
on the Marne, before Verdun, in the Argonne Forest and from the 
sectors from Flanders to Lorraine. It is told in the golden hue of 
the stars in the home service flags. And now when the advance 
guards of our heroes, flushed with victory, are returning to their 
native land, we can rejoice as Americans and as Alabamians, over 
the records which they have made during the world conflict and 
which records they now bring and present to us, as fresh laurels 
for the graves of our heroes of the past and of the present. 

While rejoicing over the return of our soldiers, our happiness 
is tempered with a touch of sorrow, for, there are many of those 
heroes who met the supreme test of duty, by giving up their lives 
as a sacrifice to their country, that others might live. We should 
remember, however, that while the bodies of these heroes may lie 
in the sacred soil of France, that usefulness and service to one's 
country and to his fellowman, is not to be measured by the span 
of years in which he may be permitted to live this life. The 
influence of a hero does not cease with his physical existence here, 
but his spirit continues to abide with his fellowman and to incite 
him to deeds of valor and to the higher ideals of life, for centuries 
to come. 

Alabama's soldiers from the illustrious corps commander 
down to the unherald private have all made good ; her people at 
home have stood as a reserve force and imbibed fully the spirit of 



22 ALABAMA MEMORIAL COMMISSION 

those who were at the front. The State's record is clear, and we 
can, with confidence and with sincerity exclaim, I am proud that 
I am an American. I am proud that I am an Alabamian. 

The achievements of our heroes should be ever perpetuated in 
our minds and in the memories of those who come after us. There 
is no more suitable way of commemorating their deeds than by 
the erection, in public places, of enduring monuments. The capitol 
grounds are the most suitable location for such a tribute. It 
would lend a touch of beautiful sentiment to this act of remem- 
brance for it to be erected from popular offerings accepted from 
an admiring and devoted people. The Legislature, however, 
should father the movement by the creation of a commission to 
receive subscriptions and to take such other action as may be 
necessary for the consummation of the plan. The counties will 
then likely follow the example set by the State and erect monu- 
ments in the public places of their several localities. It is some- 
thing more than sentiment — it is an inspiration to have the acts 
of noble lives constantly before our view. 



Alabama's War Activities 

While the European war broke out about the first of August, 
1914, and our own country did not become directly involved in 
this war until April, 1917, the nation really was, to a limited ex- 
tent, in a condition of warfare for nearly three years. For many 
years Mexico had been seriously involved with internal troubles. 
The country had been so completely depleted in resources of food 
and material opportunities, that property near the western bor- 
der became subject to the depredations of disorganized bands. 
Many lives had been lost and much property destroyed and taken 
away, in the frequent visitations of the lawless bands that infest- 
ed that section near our western border. For the protection of 
the border states against the designs of these bandits, the Na- 
tional Guard of Alabama was mobilized for duty at Montgomery 
on June 18, 1916. The Alabama Guard has been on constant duty 
since that time. From the day that it was brought together 
through the proclamation of the President, it had been kept in 
training at the mobilization camps, near the capitol of the State 
until the following October, when it was ordered to the western 
border. It remained on duty in Arizona and Texas until March, 
1917, at which time it was entrained for its return to Alabama. 
A short while after the mobilization order for the National Guard 
in Montgomery was issued, an additional unit, a full regiment of 
cavalry, was organized and its services were tendered to the 
National Government. It was accepted and was duly mustered 
into service. After some months of training it was sent to Camp 
Houston on the Texas border. The National Guard of Alabama, 



CAMPAICN HAND BOOK 23 

then in the service of the National Government, v^as composed of 
about 6,0C0 officers and men. On its return to Alabama and be- 
fore demobilization orders were put into effect, conditions with 
the German government had become serious. The break in diplo- 
matic relations was soon followed with a declaration by Congress, 
that a state of war existed. In consequence of the above, the 
State militia* has been continuously in service from June, 1916, 
until the present time. 

The Alabama National Guard was divided after recruiting 
and training for some months at Vandiver Park, which is now 
within the limits of Camp Sheridan. One regiment, the fourth, 
was placed in the Rainbow Division which was soon embarked 
for France and were among the first American troops to become 
engaged in actual warfare. The remainder of the Alabama brig- 
ade were transferred to Camp Wheeler. While stationed there the 
camp suffered from a severe epidemic of pneumonia. A similar 
scourge passed through the camp of the Alabama National Guard 
while on the western border. The disease in both instances was 
of a severe type and many lives were lost. Personal visits were 
made to both camps while the epidemic was at its worst, and 
assurance was given that Alabama soldiers were made of the 
right material and that when opportunity came for them to meas- 
ure swords with a visible foe, they would render a good account 
of themselves. This assurance has been vindicated to the utmost 
degree, not only as it relates to the National Guard, but to the 
personnel of the Alabama men in general who were a part of the 
National Army. 

The Selective Service Draft Act was passed by Congress and 
became a law on May 18, 1917. The registration boards were 
formed through orders issued by the Executive of the State and 
the first registration day was had on June 5, 1917. This em- 
braced all men of ages from 21 to 31 years, inclusive. After this, 
commenced the work of selecting those of the registrants who 
were physically fit and who could best be spared from their accus- 
tomed vocations, to serve their country in the military service. 
These were rapidly inducted into the training camps and when 
the supply from this registration approached exhaustion, under 
an amended act, those who had reached the age of 21 years since 
June 5, 1917, were called upon to register on June 5, 1918. The 
combined number of registrants under the calls were 200,775, of 
which 122,995 were whites and 77,780 were negroes. Under an 
amended act, those from 18 to 21, and from 31 to 46, were regis- 
tered on September 12, 1918. This registration was made up of 
155,384 whites and 82,498 negroes. The total number of regis- 
trants in Alabama on the three registration days had, were 438,- 
657, made up of 278,379 whites and 160,278 negroes. Of the 
above registrants 32,495 whites and 25,873 negroes were inducted 



24 ALABAMA MEMORIAL COMMLSSION 

into the service. In addition to the above, there were already in 
the service as National Guardsmen and volunteers in the different 
branches of military service, 15,457, who were not required to 
register. The total number of Alabamians inducted into the 
National Army were 73,825, of whom 47,952 were white and 
25,873 were negroes. This does not include the large number 
who volunteered their services and were accepted ihto the Navy 
and the Merchant Marine, as we have no record of those. 

For your information as to what the people of your State have 
been doing in the way of responding to the calls of the National 
Government in the payment of income taxes and the different 
activities pertaining to the war, there is given herewith the 
amounts that have been paid during 1918 for each particular ac- 
count. The amounts that they will be called upon to pay in taxes 
in 1919 will be more than double of that paid in 1918 on account 
of the increased rate. Less will be required of them, however, to 
meet the demands for bonds and other war work funds. 

Income and war taxes (paid by 18,400 individuals and 

corporations) $12,000,000 

Red Cross (subscribed by 383,779 people) 1,401,009 

United War Work Campaign 1,430,870 

Library Fund 12,260 

Knights of Columbus 45,360 

Liberty Loan Bonds : 

April 6th to March (third) 21,428,950 

September 28 to October 19 (fourth) 36,145,850 

War Savings Stamps (to November 1st) 9,100,000 



$81,564,299 



Besides the above there were other large sums raised on be- 
half of the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A., of which no informa- 
tion is at hand. 



RECORD OF ALABAMA IN THE EUROPEAN WAR 

By Gov. Thomas E. Kilby. 
(Extract from Mcssaif/c to the Legislature, January 21, 1919.) 

The prompt and efficient action of our Government, the ready 
and cheerful response of our men to the call to the colors, and 
the devotion and sacrifices of all the people of the nation have 
served to bring to a speedy and successful conclusion the ter- 
rible conflict that has been waged so long and so fiercely upon the 



CAMPAIGN HAND BOOK 25 

battlefields of Europe and the East. We may confidently look to 
our envoys and those of our allies to so contrive the settlement 
of affairs as to render it impossible that such another catastro- 
phe shall ever again occur. In fact, we may now indulge the 
hope that wars are at an end for all time. 

As American citizens we may take a just and pardonable 
pride in the efficiency and unusual achievements of those charged 
with the conduct of the war. Especially are we gratified to have 
demonstrated that the sons of free men, taken from civil life and 
trained but a few short months, can meet and overcome the sea- 
soned veterans of Autocracy upon fields of their own choice. The 
gallant conduct and indomitable spirit of America's fighting men, 
and the devoted and sacrificial support of them by practically 
the whole citizenship, has taught the world a lesson that it will 
not soon forget. Indeed, I doubt if ever again any nation will 
have the temerity to draw the United States into an armed con- 
flict. 

As Alabamians we are more than proud of the heroic deeds 
of our valiant sons and the prompt and liberal response of our 
people to all the demands made upon them. We congratulate 
with great satisfaction the fame of our boys on the fields of 
France and Belgium. It is indeed gratifying to know that in 
France Alabama is a dear and honored name because of the brave, 
chivalric conduct of our "Fighting Fourth" Regiment, and many 
other of our sons who have shared the dangers and endured the 
toil and hardships incident to warfare. 

They have written a burning page upon the annals of our 
State and nation and we should see to it that the record of their 
deeds be not lost or forgotten. That they may be perpetuated 
let us join with the other states and the nation in erecting memo- 
rials commensurate with the immeasurable sacrifices they made 
for Freedom, Justice and Right. Many of them will never 
return ; others will come to us, maimed and broken, for rehabili- 
tation. They have made, or have offered to make, the supreme 
sacrifice. It is meet, therefore, that we should properly com- 
memorate their deeds. 



ALABAMA'S WAR WORK 

By Dr. Hastings H. Hart. 
(Extract from Social Prohlenis of Alahama, 3918, pp. 16-21.) 

Alabama has met the demands of the great war with one 
hundred per cent efficiency. She has furnished men, white and 
black, to her full quota. She has gone over the top in every drive 
for the sale of Liberty Bonds and for the Red Cross, the Y. M. 



26 ALABAMA MEMORIAL COMMISSION 

C. A., the Knights of Columbus and the other national agencies. 
Her churches and her women have responded to every call for 
assistance in measures of the care and protection of the soldiers, 
by training camp activities, hostess houses, club houses, soldiers 
and officers and by extending to them the hospitality of their 
homes. They have promptly met the requests of the Govern- 
ment for food conservation, meatless and wheatless days and 
gasless Sundays. 

The Alabama State Council of Befense 

The State Council of Defense, although it has had no State 
appropriation because the Legislature did not meet, has secured 
funds from private sources and has co-operated fully with the 
National Council of Defense in the organization of the State, in 
educational propaganda and in the active promotion of the vari- 
ous drives and other movements for the winning of the war. 

Within a month after the United States entered the Euro- 
pean war. Governor Henderson, by executive proclamation 
created the Alabama Council of Defense. The first meeting of 
the Alabama Council was held June 1, 1917. 

Alabama claims credit for being the first State to co-ordi- 
nate all war work in the Council of Defense. Every head of a 
federal agency in the State has been made a member of the 
executive committee of the council, thus giving each department 
the privilege of knowing what other agencies are doing and pre- 
venting duplication of efforts. Alabama made this plan early 
in 1918, and since that time several other states have adopted it. 

This plan so impressed the Council of National Defense that 
it was sent to all state councils in the nation as a model method 
for the co-ordination of activities. 

Among the important duties assigned to the Alabama Council 
are the following : 

Approving or disapproving construction projects not neces- 
sary during the war. 

Keeping a complete history of Alabama's part in the war. 

Organizing Community Sings and Liberty Choruses. 

Maintaining^ an organization in every county which will be 
available for any government work on a moment's notice. 

Co-ordination of all war organizations in the State in order 
that duplication of effort might be prevented and a war machine 
might be ready at all times without a heavy expense to the 
nation. 

In addition, the State Council is charged with the duty of 
assisting every war organization in the State when it calls. Act- 
ing under this assignment, the Alabama Council of Defense made 
an appropriation for the teaching of illiterate selectmen during 
the summer of 1918, assisted the State Ifealth department in 



CAMPAIGN HAND BOOK 27 

combatting the spread of Spanish influenza, assisted every Lib- 
erty Loan Campaign, Red Cross drive, etc., with its State Speak- 
ers' Bureau, created a State Highways Transport Committee, 
which has been gathering information about Alabama roads 
available for motor transportation, lent its assistance to the 
selective service boards in preparing selectmen for military serv- 
ice and assisted selective service boards in the creation of perma- 
nent boards of instruction for selectmen. 

The Alabama Council of Defense did pioneer work in the 
detection of deserters, and its plan was so successful that the 
war department instructed all military camps throughout the 
nation to notify the state councils of persons absent without leave 
and in desertion. Representatives of all county councils of de- 
fense have been vigilant in investigating all reports transmitted 
to them by the War Department through the State Council and 
have succeeded in returning a large number to military camps. 

In order that every force in the State might be organized for 
war, the Alabama Council of Defense created an Advisory Com- 
mittee on Negro Organization. This committee was made up of 
some of the most favorably known negro men of the State, being 
headed by Dr. Robert R. Moton, president of Tuskegee Institute. 
County councils, following the plan of the State Council, created 
Advisory Committees on Negro Organization. Thus the State 
has a system whereby the negro power of the State is ready for 
any service. The advisory committees work under the State 
and county councils in a way that the directing heads of all 
council work of the State can know at any time what is being 
done by the negro committee. 

The Woman's Division of the Council of Defense 

At my request the following brief outline of the war work of 
the women of Alabama has been furnished by Mrs. J. F. Hooper, 
Chairman of the Woman's Division of the Council of Defense : 

A Woman's Division of the Council of Defense was formed 
by the national committee. The eighteen State organizations 
of women elected Mrs. J. F. Hooper chairman of the Alabama 
Division, thereby placing her upon the State Executive Board 
of the Council of Defense. This Division conducted the war 
work of the women, which was assembled under the departments 
recommended by the national committee. 

To expedite the work of organization the State was divided 
into zones, a member of the organization committee becoming 
chairman of a zone, responsible for the organization of seven 
counties entrusted to her supervision. Many counties had a unit 
of the council in every community and the cities were divided 
into ward and street units. Through this strong minutely organ- 
ized body all of the government measures were successfully 



28 ALABAMA MEMORIAL COMMISSION 

conducted. Sixteen thousand women registered for service and 
the system proved a practical economic factor in the industrial 
problems of the larger cities. 

Food conservation demonstrators visited every county and 
instructed the women in war substitutes, established Hoover 
kitchens and taught the art and duty of economy. 

Child conservation was undertaken under the program for 
"Children's Year," sent out by the National Children's Bureau; 
15,000 children were weighed and measured ; free clinics and food 
depots were established ; conferences, illustrated lectures and 
courses of study were provided in every part of the State, and a 
national play-day is in preparation. 

The Public Information Committee was active in seven cam- 
paigns and 112 four-minute women have carried their messages 
to 600,000 people. The total results from the four Liberty Loan 
campaigns placed to the credit of the woman's committee a sale 
of $17,608,000. 

Home and foreign relief work was done, largely through the 
Red Cross ; but over and above the magnificent service rendered 
through that channel, the women of Alabama have supported 
726 French orphans and endowed 13 beds in the American Hos- 
pital in France. 

The Music Committee has stirred the patriotism of the people 
by liberty choruses and by providing weekly entertainments for 
the camps in Alabama. With two camps in the State the inter- 
est of the Division centered largely in camp activities, and flow- 
ers, dainties and automobile rides for convalescents were a daily 
service by the relief and motor divisions. Pianos, victrolas, roll- 
ing chairs, magazines, everything that could make for the com- 
fort of the soldier lad were freely and gratefully bestowed. This 
work could not be estimated in dollars and cents, although thou- 
sands of dollars were expended, for it dealt with the work of the 
spirit and the preservation of the morale of the men in the 
army. 

The Committee on Conservation of the Spiritual Life of the 
Nation instituted a special prayer service for the safety, both 
physical and moral, of the boys over there and for the strength- 
ening of faith in the watchers at home. 

The Americanization Committee brought many able national 
speakers to Alabama to spread abroad the great national ideals 
and to impress upon the people their personal responsibility for 
upholding them. 

The conclusion of the whole matter is : believing that, other 
things being equal, the nation would win whose women showed 
intelligence and efficiency as well as patriotism and devotion, the 
women of Alabama had as their goal efficient, loyal, unbounded 
service, and they feel that they helped, in some measure, to speed 
the day of victory. 



CAMPAIGN HAND BOOK 



29 



State War Historian 

The privilege of making up the record of the participation of 
Alabama and Alabamians in the European war has been com- 
mitted to Dr. Thomas M. Owen as State War Historian of the 
Alabama Council of Defense. On inquiry I find that Dr. Owen 
as Director of the Alabama State Department of Archives and 
History has been carefully and painstakingly collecting all avail- 
able data, not only bearing upon the general struggle, but also in 
reference to Alabama activities and Alabama men. Therefore 
his new duties will be merely an enlargement of title. He plans 
a full and exhaustive collection of European war books, military 
and technical books, histories and historical sketches of all fed- 
eral, military, welfare and commercial activities operating in the 
State, and the personal records of all officers and enlisted men in 
the military or naval service of the United States from Alabama. 



ALABAMA'S RECORD IN THE SELECTIVE DRAFT 

Compiled by L. E. LaMont, U. S. Draft Executive of Alabama. 



COUNTIES 



S5-2 
'c'o'5 



Autauga 
Baldwin . 
Barbour . 

Bibb 

Blount .... 
Bullock . 

Butler 

Calhoun . 
Chambers 
Cherokee 
Chilton . 
Choctaw . 
Clarke .... 

Clay 

Cleburne 

Coffee 

Colbert .... 
Conecuh . 

Coosa 

Covington 
Crenshaw 
Cullman . 



Ill 

131 

196 

155 

60 

70 

200 

520 

148 

84 

129 

57 

94 

88; 

33 

237 

162 

272 

51 

253 

118 

112 






fa O 
CCQ 

"S >> >, 



T3 T3 

0)— ij 

^W § . 

o o c - 



03 



^■a ^ h-5 00 ' 
w Set- hi I 



5 i 

S o coo 
5 => go 



188 


318 


617 


318 


200 


649 


289 


302 


787i 


379 


246 


780' 


447 


46 


553 


138 


358 


5661 


332 


394 


9261 


752 


415 


1,687! 


450 


485 


1,0831 


454 


57 


595! 


458 


114 


701' 


288 


295 


640 : 


410 


480 


9841 


519 


85 


6921 


296 


44 


373^ 


451 


179 


867! 


435 


332 


929! 


352 


321 


945! 


249 


138 


4381 


713 


352 


1,318! 


403 


243 


7641 


776 


42 


930' 



1,4671 
1,7151 
2,224! 
2,2361 
2,178i 
1,4901 
2,3321 
4,4281 
3,454; 
1,6491 
1,8251 
1,6831 
2,378' 
1,999' 
1,144! 
2,5261 
2,208! 
2,027! 
1,184! 
3,363! 
2,0201 
2,771| 



1,473 
1,972 
2,737 
2,464 
2,567 
1,846 
2,790 
5,202 
3,515 
2,063 
2,219 
2,012 
2,867 
2,388 
1,284 
2,677 
4,403 
2,198 
1,421 
3,424 
2,217 
3,465 






2,940 
3,687 
4,961 
4,700 
4,745 
3,336 
5,122 
9,630 
6,969 
3,712 
4,044 
3,695 
5,245 
4,387 
2,428 
5,203 
6,611 
4,225 
2,605 
6,787 
4,237 
6.236 



30 



ALABAMA MEMORIAL COMMISSION 



COUNTIES 



.2 3 3 




JX •^ '^ 



" .2 lO ,^"00 

2« 3 «-"■ j=tf ar 

fe: T3 ►-» ^ 00 ^ -73 ^■'3 



J ^ 
i»i- 



) O ?i g 



Dale 

Dallas 

DeKalb 

Elmore 

Escambia 

Etowah 

Fayette 

Franklin 

Geneva ;. 

Greene 

Hale 

Henry 

Houston 

Jackson 

Jefferson 

Division No. 1 
Division No. 2 
Division No. 3 

Lamar ,... 

Lauderdale 

Lawrence 

Lee 

Limestone 

Lowndes 

Macon _ 

Madison 

Marengo 

Marion 

Marshall 

Mobile Co. 

Monroe 

Montgomery Co. 

Morgan 

Perry 

Pickens 

Pike : 

Eandolph 

Russell 

Shelby 

St. Clair 

Sumter 

Talladega 

Tallapoosa 

Tuscaloosa 

Walker 

Washington 

Wilcox 

Winston 



192 
273 
120 
195 
363 
451 

57 
100 
244 

31 

94 

91 
358 
173 
^415 
338 
154 
196 

48 
191 

83 
174 
140 

71 

48 
303 
118 

83 
221 
305 

96 
130 
208 

92 
133 
210 
107 

82 
171 
157 

77 
253 
105 
281 
280 

78 

98 

59 



338 
233 
774 
362 
306 
910 
414 
491 
495 
54 
183 
311 
572 
879 



5601 
3381 
4091 
4211 
605! 
3241 
3651 
618' 

nil 

95i 

8511 
2491 
588! 
8021 
4331 
2921 
1031 
7201 
176! 
3371 
339' 
4431 
1291 
4221 
4571 
150! 
477! 
4991 
726! 
9421 
2251 
191! 
2521 



104 

601 

44 

321 

270 

364 

78 

77 

136 

200 

297 

244 

340 

112 



1,536 
345 
514 
141 
207 
195 
467 
437 
405 
412 
591 
559 
41 
64 
583 
398 
468 
303 
246 
290 
364 
176 
363 
178 
175 
313 
391 
431 
450 
381 
193 
503 
21 



634 

1,107 

938 

878 

939 

1,725 

549 

668 

875 

285 

574 

646 

1,270 

1,164 

*415 

2,434 

837 

1,119 

610 

1,003 

602 

1,006 

1,195 

587 

555 

1,745 

926 

712 

1,087 

1,321 

786 

701 

1,231 

514 

760 

913 

726 

574 

771 

789 

540 

1,121 

1,035 

1,457 

1,603 

496 

792 

• 332 



1,890 
3,323 
2,836 
2,389 
2,065 
4,925 
1,545 
2,013 
2,333 
987 
1,600 
1,761 
2,917 
2,921 



7,473 
2,846 
3,978 
1,600 
3,154 
2,073 
2,531 
2,912 
1,569 
1.577 
4,678 
2,462 
1,882 
2,774 
3,151 
2,362 
2,104 
3,535 
1,590 
2,267 
2,741 
2,332 
1,867 
2,243 
2,164 
8,848 
3,235 
2,403 
5,065 
4,681 
1,200 
1,867 
1,184 



2,117 
4,790 
3,442 
3,596 
2,334 
4,176 
1,810 
2,068 
2,777 
1,433! 
1,9381 
1,9371 
3,3361 
3,5251 



6,369! 
3,521! 
4.255! 
1,8791 
3,927! 
2,3411 
2,7561 
3,003! 
1,9831 
1,9331 
4,9371 
3,1111 
2,083i 
3,3571 
4,9721 
2.8061 
2,6981 
4,2421 
2,1031 
2,504! 
2,8661 
2,5781 
2,041' 
2,6731 
2,3881 
2,3761 
3.6931 
2,6101 
5,575! 
5,9091 
1,4041 
2,5511 
1,511| 



4,007 
8,113 
6,278 
5,985 
4,399 
9,101 
3,355 
4,081 
5,110 
2,420 
3,538 
3,698 
6,253 
6,446 



13,842 
6,367 
8,2.33 
3,479 
7,081 
4,414 
5,287 
5,915 
S,552 
3,510 
9,615 
5,573 
3,965 
6,131 
8,123 
5,168 
4.802 
7,777 
3,693 
4,771 
5.607 
4,910 
3.908 
4.916 
4,552 
4,224 
6,928 
5.013 
10,640 
10,590 
2,604 
4,418 
2.695 



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Montgomery City| 


590 


Mobile City | 


*387 


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121 


Division No. 2... 


116 


Birmingham Cityi 


*1,140 


Division No. 1... 


331 


Division No. 2... 


222 


Division No. 3..J 


365 


Division No. 4... 


207 


Division No. 5... 


289 


Division No. 6...| 


161 


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15,457 



5111 



653 



370 


377 


1 195 


640 


468 


628 


I 363 


380 


1 496 


818 


i 276 


600 


484 


742 


! 249 


261 



1,754 
*387 

868 

951 

*1,140 

1,427 

965 
1,679 
1,083 
1,515 

671 



4,204 



5,578l 9,782 



2,137 
2,338 



4,167i 

3,0701 



6,304 
5,408 



4,0081 
3,057| 
5,086i 
3,1261 
4,4891 
2,1761 



9,9471 
4,163 i 
6,044! 
3,049! 
4,510! 
2,916! 



8,955 
7,220 
11,130 
6,175 
8,999 
5,092 



32,4801 25,8741 73,811| 201,7751 237,8821 439,657 



*Voluntary enlistments before Draft. 

The total number of men who entered the militai'y service in the State 
of Alabama is 46.4 per cent of the total white and colored registrants of 
June 5, 1917, June 5, 1918, and August 24, 1918. The total number of men 
who entered the military service, exclusive of the Navy and Marine Corps 
and deserters, is 73,811, as shown on this list. 



Volunteers in Service 

In the foregoing table no account is taken of National Guard 
commands or other volunteers. 

Therefore, it is estimated that ten per cent at least should be 
added to the figures for every county, to reach the approximate 
grand total actually in the service. 



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Patriotic and Memorial Selections 



The memory of the dead will be kept greener if their memorial renders 
continuous service to the living. 

—Henry B. Jackson, U. S. Bureau of Education Circular No. 2, Jan., 1919. 



The memory of a great past is the inspiration of a great present, and the 
country wliich honors its great men kas the prospect of producing more in 
the future. The gratitude of free people will uudouhtedly lead them to erect 
some kind of memorials to the heroic men who in this war sacrificed their 
lives that liberty might live. Only an enduring memorial can express our 
gratitude for the boys who made the supreme sacrifice. They gave their 
to-dav for our to-morrow. 

—Thid. 



Its bronze tablet should contain, not only the names of the boys whose 
bodies lie under little white crosses in France, but the names of all the boys 
who fought in behalf of this idea. They were potential martyrs, and were 
willing to die with their comrades. Moreover, by the side of the names of the 
boys who made the supreme sacrifice should be placed the names of their 
mothers. The mothers of these martyrs have rendered a conspicuous service 
to the cause for which their heroes fell. They furnished the heroes. In 
their loss they have already suffered more than the boys, and will bear an 
additional burden of loneliness and hardship down the long trail of the future. 
While we remember the heroic boys it is unfair to forget their, equally heroic 
mothers. 

—Tbid. 



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ALABAMA 

By Miss Julia S. Tutwiler. 

Alabama, Alabama, 

We will aye be true to thee, 

From thy Southern shore where groweth, 

By the sea, thine orange tree. 

To thy Northern vale where floweth. 

Deep and blue thy Tennessee, 

Alabama, Alabama, 

We will aye be true to thee ! 

Brave and pure thy men and women, 
Better this than corn and wine. 
Make us worthy, God in heaven. 
Of this goodly land of thine ; 
Hearts as open as our doorways, 
Liberal lands and spirits free, 
Alabama, Alabama, 
We will aye be true to thee ! 



Little, little, can I give thee, 

Alabama, mother of mine; 

But that little — hand, brain, spirit. 

All I have and am are thine. 

Take, O take the gift and giver. 

Take and serve thyself with me, 

Alabama, Alabama, 

I will aye be true to thee ! 



A LAND WITHOUT RUINS 

By Father Abram J. Ryan. 

**A land without ruins is a land without memories — a land 
without memories is a land without history, A land that wears 
a laurel crown may be fair to see ; but twine a few sad cypress 
leaves around the brow of any land, and be that land barren, 
beautiless and bleak, it becomes lovely in its consecrated coronet 
of sorrow% and it wins the sympathy of the heart and of history. 
Crowns of roses fade — crowns of thorns endure. Calvaries and 
crucifixions take deepest hold of humanity — the triumphs of 



36 ALABAMA MEMORIAL COMMLSSION 

might are transient — they pass and are forgotten — the suffer- 
ings of right are graven deepest on the chronicle of nations." 

Yes, give me the land where the ruins are spread, 
And the living tread light on the hearts of the dead; 
Yes, give me a land that is blest by the dust. 
And bright w^ith the deeds of the down-trodden just. 
Yes, give me the land where the battle's red blast 
Has flashed to the future the fame of the past; 
Yes, give me the land that hath legends and lays 
That tell of the memories of long vanished days ; 
Yes, give me a land that hath story and song ! 
Enshrine the strife of the right with the wrong! 
Yes, give me a land with a grave in each spot, 
And names in the graves that shall not be forgot ; 
Yes, give me the land of the wreck and the tomb ; 
There is grandeur in graves — there is glory in gloom; 
For out of the gloom future brightness is born, 
As after the night comes the sunrise of morn ; 
And the graves of the dead with the grass overgrown 
May yet form the footstool of liberty's throne. 
And each single wreck in the war path of might 
Shall yet be a rock in the temple of right. 



A SONG FOR HEROES 

By Edwin Markham. 
I. 

A song for the heroes who saw the sign 
And took their place in the battle-line ; 
They were walls of granite and gates of brass ; 
And they cried out to God, "They shall not pass !" 
And they hurled them back in a storm of cheers, 
And the sound will echo on over the years. 
And a song for the end, for the glorious end. 
And the soldiers marching up over the bend 
Of the broken roads in gallant France, 
The homing heroes who took the chance, 
Who looked on life, and with even breath 
Faced the winds from the gulfs of death. 
Their hearts are running on over the graves — 
Over the battle-wrecks — over the waves — 
Over the scarred fields — over the foam — 
On to America — on to home ! 



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11. 

And a song for the others, the heroes slain 
In Argonne Forest — in St. Gobain — 
In the flowery meadows of Picardy — 
In Belgium— in Italy, 
From brave Montello to the sea. 

A song for the heroes gone on ahead 
To join the hosts of the marching dead — 
A song for the souls that could lightly fling 
Sweet life away as a little thing 
For the sake of the mighty need of earth, 
The need of the ages coming to birth. 

All praise for the daring God who gave 
Heroic souls that could dare the grave. 
Praise for the power He laid on youth 
To challenge disaster and die for truth. 
What greater gift can the High God give, 
Than the power to die that the truth may live ! 

Glory to the Lord, the Hero of Heaven, 
He whose wounds in His side are seven — 
Glory that He gathers the heroes home. 
Out of the red fields, out of the foam — 
Gathers them out of the Everywhere, 
Into the Camp that is Over There ! 



YOUR LAD, AND MY LAD 

By Randall Parrish. 

Down toward the deep-blue water, marching to throb of drum, 
From city street and country lane the lines of khaki come ; 
The rumbling guns, the sturdy tread, are full of grim appeal. 
While rays of western sunshine flash back from burnished steel. 
With eager eyes and cheeks aflame the serried ranks advance; 
And your dear lad, and my dear lad, are on their way to France. 

A sob clings choking in the throat, as file on file sweep by. 
Between those cheering multitudes, to where the great ships lie ; 
The batteries halt, the columns wheel, to clear-toned bugle-call. 
With shoulders squared and faces front they stand a khaki wall. 
Tears shine on every watcher's cheek, love speaks in every glance ; 
For your dear lad, and my dear lad, are on their way to France. 



38 ALABAMA MIOMOUIAI. TOMMISSION 

Before them, through a mist of years, in soldier buff or blue, 
Brave comrades from a thousand fields watch now in review ; 
The same old Flag, the same old Faith — the Freedom of the 

World- 
Spells Duty in those flapping folds above long ranks unfurled. 
Strong are the hearts which bear along Dermocracy's advance, 
As your dear lad, and my dear lad, go on their way to France. 

The word rings out ; a million feet tramp forward on the road, 
Along that path of sacrifice o'er which their fathers strode. 
With eager eyes and cheeks aflame, with cheers on smiling lips, 
These fighting men of '17 move onward to their ships. 
Nor even love may hold them back, or halt that stern advance,. 
As your dear lad, and my dear lad, go on their way to France. 



THE SERVICE FLAG 

By William Herschell. 

Dear little flag in the window there, 
Hung with a tear and a woman's prayer; 
Child of Old Glory, born with a star — 
Oh, what a wonderful flag you are. 

Blue is your star in its field of white, 
Dipped in the red that was born of fight; 
Born of the blood that our forebears shed 
To raise your mother. The Flag o'erhead. 

And now you've come, in this frenzied day. 
To speak from a window — to speak and say : 
"I am the voice of a soldier-son 
Gone to be gone till the victory's won. 

"I am the flag of The Service, sir, 
The flag of his mother — I speak for her 
Who stands by my window, waits and fears, 
But hides from the others her unwept tears. 

"I am the flag of the wives who wait 
For the safe return of a martial mate, 
A mate gone forth where the war god thrives 
To save from sacrifice other men's wives. 



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*'I am the flag of the sweethearts true ; 
The often unthought of — the sisters, too. 
I am the flag of a mother's son, 
And won't come down till the victory's won." 

Dear little flag in the window there. 
Hung with a tear and a woman's prayer ; 
Child of Old Glory, born with a star— 
Oh, what a wonderful flag you are. 



IN FLANDERS' FIELDS 

By LiEUT.-CoL. John D. McCrae. 

In Flanders' fields the poppies grow 
Between the crosses, row on row. 
That mark our place, and in the sky 
The larks still bravely singing fly. 
Scarce heard amid the guns below. 

We are the dead ; short days ago 
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunsets glow, 
Loved and were loved, and now we lie 
In Flanders' fields. 

Take up our quarrel with the foe ! 
To you from falling hands we throw 
The torch ; be yours to hold it high. 
If ye break faith with us who die 
We shall not sleep, though poppies blow 
In Flanders' fields. 



REST IN PEACE 

By James N. Gunnels. 

Sleep on, ye Brave, 
In Flanders' fields. 

The torch that dropped from falling hands 
Is blazing high o'er war-free lands. 
And happy larks now singing fly 
O'er cross-marked graves of ye who lie 
In Flanders' fields. 



40 ALABAMA MEMORIAL COMMISSION 

We kept the faith. 
In Flanders' fields 

Where poppies bloom the graves among. 
For countless years that yet may come 
Shall Freedom still her vigil keep 
O'er noble sons in peaceful sleep, 
In Flanders' fields. 

Rest on, ye, then. 

In Flanders' fields. 

No more the sound of bursting shell, 

No murderous gas, no seething hell ; 

Yet, 'tis not death ; what seems to be 

Is dawn of immortality. 

In Flanders' fields. 



IN FLANDERS' FIELDS: AN ANSWER 

By C. B. Galbreath. 

In Flanders' field the cannons boom. 
And fitful flashes light the gloom, 
While up above, like eagles, fly 
The fierce destroyers of the sky ; 
With stains the earth wherein you lie 
Is redder than the poppy bloom 
In Flanders' fields. 

Sleep on, ye brave. The shrieking shell. 

The quaking trench, the startled yell, 

The fury of the battle hell 

Shall wage you not, for all is well. 

Sleep peacefully, for all is well. 

Your flaming torch aloft we bear, 
With burning heart an oath we swear. 
To keep the faith, to fight it through 
To crush the foe, or sleep with you 
In Flanders' fields. 



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